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with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. My name is Nate.

And I'm Callie. We're so happy you could join us here today and if you're a lawyer

listener welcome back to the show. Today you'll learn about how diversifying

farms has a ton of upsides and virtually no downsides the way we tend to

predict how something will smell before we smell it and a universally shared

preference for simple rhythms in music.

Let's get into it.

Anyone who is driven through America's farmlands,

from Central California to Kansas, to Nebraska,

and elsewhere, has at some point found themselves staring

at what seems like an endless landscape of

corn or wheat. Or soybeans. Yeah, you can get a big picture view of this when you fly

over our farmland. The scale of our agricultural output is really stunning.

Oh absolutely I actually grew up in an area that was just covered in rice paddies but anyways

it wasn't always like this but after after World War II, the world was facing a pretty dramatic food shortage with millions of people, I mean, maybe even billions, on the brink of starvation.

But an innovator named Norman Borlogg saw another way.

He developed specific varieties of wheat that could produce more output with less land.

But there was a catch.

I think I know where this is going. You're talking about the green revolution, right?

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